Platform X Akan Menyati Peraturan Mahkamah Agung Brasil

JAKARTA - After weeks of refusing to comply with Brazil's Supreme Court rules, social networking platform X was finally rumored to be complying with the rules.

Reported by The New York Times, the company's lawyers said X would comply with a court order, and block a designated account, pay fines, and appoint a new official representative in the country.

However, the Supreme Court has not yet received the exact agreement document from X.

Thus, Brazilian Supreme Court Justices will give X five days to submit the document.

The feud between the two parties began when Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes required X to block accounts suspected of being involved in spreading fake news and hate speech.

But unfortunately, owner X Elon Musk denounced the decision as a form of unfair censorship.

"They closed the number one truth source in Brazil," he said.

Moraes pun menegaskan bahwa platform X harus sepenuhnya mematuhi perintah pengadilan, termasuk membayar denda lebih dari 3 juta dolar AS (Rp45 miliar) dan menunjuk perwakilan lokal sesuai dengan hukum Brasil.

Moraes also ordered telecommunications companies in Brazil to stop network X traffic and ensure users cannot access it via VPN.

In fact, users who are caught accessing X using VPN will be subject to a fine of 50,000 reais (Rp135 million) per day.

A few days ago, several X users in the country managed to access Elon Musk's social network, because X allegedly used the DNS Cloudflare service, to avoid the blocking.

At the time, a spokesman X told Engadget that the service's recovery was accidental and might only be temporary. Thus, X will no longer be accessible.